After working in TYLin for more than 18 years (started 1 June 1998) YowCH resigned yesterday, Friday, 29 July 2016. Time to move out and venture into some other firm. He has already accepted an offer with significantly better renumeration and work environment.
There will be 3 months of transition, and we are praying for the transit to be smooth and problems-free.
Re-contracting at about 10 months since the HTC One M8, YowCH ordered a new phone on 18 July and it was delivered to by 19 July. The Samsung Galaxy S7 (non-edge) came with a free Samsung Gear VR for $288.00, where the street price is $785. The phone is glass on both front and back, and black in colour. YowCH bought a jelly case, also black, which fits well and looks great. This is the first non-HTC smart phone that YowCH is using since Nokia days. The QuadHD screen is nicely bright and has great contrast. Being waterproof, the camera can take underwater photos and videos up to 1m depth. It is about the same size as the HTC One M8.
The set unboxed:
And the Gear VR:
Samuel brought home his bean sprouts, and they are growing very well!
After sending Esther and David to church, YowCH brought Joseph and Samuel to West Coast Park for playground fun. Grace was working.
On the evening, Samuel played with his toy car, which he has to assemble with a little help from YowCH.
Esther played the guitar while David played the cajon as musicians for church Kids for Christ worship leader Ezra on both Saturday and Sunday.
That afternoon, as we prepared to go for football, we hung out at the playground for a while:
Samuel had a nice hair-cut, very short hair now, very ‘boy’.
We had dinner at Star Vista on Wednesday night, Portuguese food at Nando’s. Samuel was very amused by the hanging food.
The West Coast Wolves hosted a friendly game with Ulu Pandan and Bukit Batok East at Clementi Stadium. WE had nder-7, under-10, under-12 and adults. David played under-12 and Joseph was under-10.
David and Joseph played goal-keeper and defender at different times.
The games were fun and fast, both David and Joseph played well. 15 minutes to the end of the day, David (goal-keeper) made a slide tackle to push the ball away from a striker, and his left ankle was injured by the striker falling on him. With the possibility of a fracture, we tool him to see Gene and then Gene drove YowCH and David to NUH for X-ray under A&E. Thank God that all is fine, not a fracture, and he will only need to bandage the ankle for a week.
We visited Gardens by the Bay on Saturday 18 June 2016 with TYLin (Family Day). Please click on the photos for the link to the page.
We have uploaded the photos for our church camp at Bintan Lagoon Resort, Indonesia, from 12 to 15 June 2016, with a further holiday extension up to 17 June. Please click photos below to the dedicated page.
YowCH took David to Johor Bahru on 9 May (Thursday) to get the Malaysian IC done. It was quite a nice adventure, where they drove to Woodlands and parked, walked to the Singapore CIQ, took a bus to cross, and then a taxi to Setia Tropika where the Pusat Pentadbiran Awam is currently located.
We arrived at 8:45 and got the registration done by 9:30. After that, we roamed the streets a little and collected the new IC at 11:55. Rather fast service.
We had two meals, breakfast near City Square, and KFC lunch in City Square.
After lunch and a little shopping, we got to the car and drove to YowCH’s sites at Punggol and Sengkang for a short while before returning home.
For Esther’s 14th birthday on Monday, 6 June, Grace took the children and Esther’s friends to J-Cube for ice-skating fun. Samuel didn’t get to skate as the minimum age is 3.
They were all rather good at skating. After skating, they had lunch together.
That evening, YowCH joined them at Westgate for Japanese dinner:
